WASHINGTON, July 15 -- Sen. Adam Schiff issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) pressed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJcZ9cXC2Rs&feature=youtu.be) Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche at his nomination hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his role in the settlement reached by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the tax immunity deal created for the president in that agreement, and Blanche's obligation to recuse himself from matters involving cases he handled as Trump's personal criminal defense lawyer.
While under oath, Blanche claimed, for the first time, that he recused himself from matters related to lawsuits in which he represented the pre...